LAFAYETTE — A passing motorist saw two children — a 2-year-old girl and a 4-year-old girl — walking unattended along Poland Hill Road and the railroad tracks about 9:10 p.m. Monday, according to police.

The motorists called police, who found the children — one of whom was naked — unharmed, but unsupervised, according to police.

Officers could not find the girls' parents, so Department of Children Services took care of the children, police said.

About four hours later, the girls' parents called police to report their daughters were missing, police said.

The girls' mother was at work when they slipped out of the home.

Their father, David Kenny Mays, 32, of the 2500 block of Eckman Place, who was supposed to be watching the girls, fell asleep, and the girls apparently found their way outside, police said.

Police arrested Mays and booked him into the Tippecanoe County Jail on suspicion of neglect of a dependent endangering life, according to jail records.

He was released on his own recognizance at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to jail records.

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